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Show Illllil Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter Dorothy Thompson, the columnist, refused to sit at a dinner table the other night where the guests were lauding the achievements of Hitler. She said she couldn't sit with her enemies . . . "Enemies?" asked one of them, "but you are a pure Aryan journalist!" . . . "Perhaps," was her volley, "but I'm also an American, and you people are un-American un-American so you are my enemies!" ene-mies!" That isn't the first time she's done that . . . During the recent campaign cam-paign she found herself with dinner guests among whom sat a senatorial sena-torial "dark horse," who made some remarks that made her innards somersault. "You four - syllable!" Dorothy shouted as she got up and left. The following amazing story about Hitler is credited to one of his former for-mer intimates now in the U. S. It is passed on to exercise your eyebrows eye-brows . . The one-time intimate of Hitler says it came from Hitler's personal pilot . . . The legend: That Hitler maintains a secret hideaway hide-away in Bogota, Colombia ... It is said to be a 50-acre estate, and the front gate is two miles from the main house, which, above the ground, is a plain flat building. The building underground is five stories deep and there is enough food stored there for two years. A Hitler aide inspects the place every two months, etc. Sportswritcr Chas. Scully and some of the boys were reminiscing . . . When Heywood Broun was covering cov-ering big league ball games (before he took up colyuming) he casually mentioned, in one of his reports, that a large and intelligent crowd witnessed the contest . . . What, his sports editor wanted to know, was the idea of writing that a large and intelligent crowd had attended the game when the Associated Press coverage of the same tussle mentioned men-tioned that the attendance was slightly less than scanty. "Crowd at game was large and intelligent," in-telligent," wired back Broun, "Fatty "Fat-ty Arbuckle was in stands. He is large. I am intelligent." The Damon Runyons were doing the town the other midnight with . Hazel Forbes, the ex-Ziegfeld girl, : who married Harry Richman j It was the night the stories broke j announcing the split of the Rich- ' mans, and Hazel's plan to go to Reno . . . "Tell me a love story," j Hazel said, "anything to show me j that romance can bloom on this darn i old street or that marriage can survive." sur-vive." Patrice Runyon, who rarely gabs, then revealed how she met Damon and how she almost didn't ... It was at the Silver Slipper many years ago, and Patrice was in the new show as featured dancer . . . Runyon came in for the premiere, and the manager asked him if he'd like to meet Patrice. "She's a nice girl," he said . . . Then he went j backstage and asked her if she'd like to meet a nice Broadway guy . . . "If there is such an animal," she said, "lead me to it I never met one before!" ... In the meantime, mean-time, the star of the show sat with Runyon . . . "I'm going to meet the dancer," Damon remarked . . . "Oh, you won't like her at all!" the star said, "she'll bore you stiff. I'll have you meet some of the pretty ones" . . . But Patrice met Runyon Run-yon first and They Lived Happily Ever After. "The star," Patrice dramatically added, "was Harry Richman." Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Big Parade: F.P.A. and John Kieran of "Info, Please" getting more laughs playing tennis at Forest For-est Hills than they'll ever get with their typewriters . . . Just a dutiful duti-ful wife Leelee Pons gingerly blotting blot-ting Andre Kostelanetz's damp brow on E. 57th, with her little silken hanky . . . Gloria Swanson looking more glamorous eating cheesecake in Reuben's than most Hollywood hopefuls look in a bathing suit. Sallies in Our Alley: One of the local ham actors was complaining about the way the New York press refused to admit he existed. "Amazing." "Amaz-ing." he intoned, "the way they all iynore me!" ... It reminded someone some-one of the guy who made a similar squawk to Oscar Wilde. "It is a complete conspiracy of silence against me," he said, "what VJKht I d' about their silence?" ... To which Oscar counseled: "Join it!" 'I lie llo-hum IKp't: Cudahy says he submitted his interview to Hitler, and Adolf didn't chantfe a word . . . Which is the worst criticism that interview has roe'd! . . . Maxie Itos'Tibloorn is now taking d;incing l.-!.:,uris . . . r.I'Niriing that he's re-turning re-turning to the rinc? . . . The League at American Writers, mostly Left-i; Left-i; t;. . rn-t a while hack and agreed that they still disliked the people they didn't care for last year . . , If they didn't (let bitter surprise twi.'its in their yarns than they get in tiielr politics they'd utarv. |